'Twas stated:
"Feedline coax shield 1.7 ohms.
The single 1.7 ohms lowers the voltage and even in this case of what
appears to be an excellent ground radials system, the coax will carry HALF
the counterpoise current and waste most of that power, besides being a
link...(etc.)"
Whaaat???
Where did that 1.7 ohm figure come from....space?
The size (gauge) of radial wires has very little effect on their
effectiveness as radials, according everything I've ever read. Also,
effective resistance to ground, due to such intimate coupling to earth when
radials are at the surface or buried, evens out their equivalent resistances
and reactances, rendering them "un-tuned." Not comparable to elevated
radials at all. Voltage and current nodes on surface or buried radials are
smoothed and averaged out rendering them un-problematic.
If no balun, including a choke-type, is used at the feedpoint of a vertical
then the coax braid simply counts as another radial, averaged in with the
many. Ferrites at the shack end can attenuate any residual RF on the braid
if it is troublesome there (unlikely).
73, Roy K6XK Iowa
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